The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-10-28

JUDGE THURMAN delivered his first
speech in the Ohio campaign at Kenton,
Hardin county, on Saturday last. In
the beginning of his speech he stated
that hfty-four years ago he stood on the
site of kenton, then an almost Impene-
trable wilderness "a beardless youth
earning his daily bread by his occupa-
tion as land surveyor" OF Mr..
Cleveland he said :
There is one man / want 10 speak about
because l know him right well. He T. a man
that you have heard OF much, and that man
Is GroVer Cleveland, President of the United
States lGreat and prolonged applause
Now. my friends, have seen a good many
Presidents in my long life. / have known
several OF them personally, and 1 have read
the history or the administration OF them all
have seen and know and / think l know
him full we'll. Grover Cleveland, our Presi-
dent OF the United States. and on nv honor
as man who is bound to tell you the truth,
II ever man was bound to tell the truth, to
his felioT-men, don't believe that a more
honest, oraver, truer man eyer filled the
residential chair Of the United States
prolonged applause.
1t was said that II he should be elected
resident the country would all be ruined.
wen, even my friend John Sherman agrees
that the sun does rise yet l.aughterI and
that the rain does fall and the corn does
grow aud johns fences are in as good con-
dltion as they ever were rene wed laughter -,
notwithstanding Grover Cleveland Is Presi-
dent or the nation. And. nv friends. / say
he is al honest brave man. He is more than
that be Is a man of far more ability than
people who don't know him may suppose
He has that supreme faculty, the best of all
faculties. which we designate by the term
common sense" LApplause. II he Is
not level-headed. common-sense, honest
man, then 1 am no judge of men. Zap
plause
Now am glad to find that every day that
ne lives he grows in the estimation of the
American people, and my firm belief is that
When his fouIs years are at an end they will
say TO him, ''You haye done we'll when we
mt such and such trusts in your hands
we have tried you for four years and found
applause.
The conclusion Of the grand old mans
speech was touching. The meeting was
an immense one, fully 10000 people
having assembled in the town to hear
Thurman. In closing he said
My friends, this is probably the last polit-
zeal speech shall ever make. don't know.
am pretty tough old fellow, and It may be
that will De wandering about here. like a
ghost On the bank of StyX, ten years from
now TALKING Democracy to you. / swear
you VIII never hear me taIking anything
eIse: Laughter and applause But 1 am
Ai'"H thab buts Is Ine lasl pOlltl-
cal speech L ever shall maze. And If it is,
ID my parting words to you beseech YOU to
stand by the great principles that Thomas
Jefferson laid down for :he American people,
thet Andrew jackson enforced. and that
nave made this country one of the greatest
ana ireest and most lo9able countries upon
winch the sun of God shines to day. BE
thankful that you have such a country. bs
thankful that you have such a government !.
and never forget that when you come to
sitt II down; TO analvZe il. to boil it. you
Will nnd that every principle that has con-
tibuted to your happiness is principle of
the Democratic party. lGreat applause